The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PITIFUL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PITIFUL
- Pathetic is mine: poem starts to unravel, literarily
- Pathetic
- Sad soul, so lost, with hollow uncertainty ahead
- Mine — one almost complete — becomes inadequate
- ‘Lift?’ ‘Up for repair around one, sorry‘
- I must get in lift up that’s broken down — it’s pathetic
- I lift up folds in a sad state
- Wretched colliery providing fuel regularly
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What does PITIFUL mean?
PITIFUL adjective- Feeling pity; merciful.
- So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
- Of an amount or number: very small.
- In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.